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Author Archives: George Leopold
George Leopold
George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).Survey: Cyber Complacency Growing
September 13th, 2016 Comments Off on Survey: Cyber Complacency Growing
Despite an alarming increase in the frequency and severity of cyber attacks, enterprises large and small claim they are doing enough to mitigate the effects of a data breach. New data released this week by market analyst Juniper Research ...
OpenStack Readies Newton as Mitaka Releases Arrive
September 12th, 2016 Comments Off on OpenStack Readies Newton as Mitaka Releases Arrive
As more vendors unveil their enterprise-grade distributions of OpenStack Mitaka released in the spring, developers are already preparing the launch of the new OpenStack upgrade dubbed Newton. Several vendors including Red Hat and OpenStack cofounder Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) have ...
U.S. Announces First Cyber Chief
September 9th, 2016 Comments Off on U.S. Announces First Cyber Chief
A retired Air Force General has been tapped to be the nation's first chief information security officer, the Obama administration announced this week. Retired Brig. Gen. Gregory Touhill previously served as director of command, control, communications and cyber systems ...
HPE Spins Software Unit to Focus on Infrastructure
September 8th, 2016 Comments Off on HPE Spins Software Unit to Focus on Infrastructure
As at least one competitor gets bigger, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) got smaller this week with an $8.8 billion spinoff and merger of its software unit with staid software vendor Micro Focus. HPE (NYSE: HPE) and Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO.L) ...
Merged Dell-EMC Targets Hybrid Cloud
September 7th, 2016 Comments Off on Merged Dell-EMC Targets Hybrid Cloud
If bigger is better, the new IT behemoth Dell Technologies Inc. that combines the holdings of Dell and storage leader EMC Corp. fits the bill with the completion a $60 billion merger of cloud, storage, virtualization and hardware components ...
Intel Buys Vision Chip Developer Movidius
September 6th, 2016 Comments Off on Intel Buys Vision Chip Developer Movidius
Intel Corp. is acquiring low-power machine vision specialist Movidius in a bid to bolster its embedded visual computing capabilities. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced Tuesday (Sept. 6) it was buying the developer of low power chips to accelerate the integration ...
Steady Shift in Enterprise Workloads to Cloud
September 1st, 2016 Comments Off on Steady Shift in Enterprise Workloads to Cloud
An estimated 41 percent of enterprise workloads are currently running in public and private clouds, a total that is expected to rise to 60 percent over the next two years as enterprise embrace hybrid cloud infrastructure for emerging applications ...
U.S. Announces New Compute for Manufacturing Projects
September 1st, 2016 Comments Off on U.S. Announces New Compute for Manufacturing Projects
The Energy Department's High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program, roughly a year old, continues to gather momentum with the recent award of $3.8 million for 13 new industry projects. More effective collaboration with and transfer of HPC knowledge ...
U.S. Out of Medal Contention in Coding Olympics
August 31st, 2016 Comments Off on U.S. Out of Medal Contention in Coding Olympics
China’s impressive standing up of the 93 petaflops Sunway TaihuLight atop the Top500 list in June ruffled more than a few feathers in the west. Here’s yet more fodder for stirring up geo-computational acumen nervousness – a report by HackerRank, ...
OCP Tackles ‘Big Software’ Compatibility Issues
August 31st, 2016 Comments Off on OCP Tackles ‘Big Software’ Compatibility Issues
The Open Compute Project spearheaded by Facebook continues to wring out "big software" platforms such as the latest release of OpenStack, container orchestrators like Kubernetes along with block and other big data storage approaches running on environments ranging from ...